West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-04-21

natural diSintegratiun or Cremation NO .boii
get that luminous, buoyaRt, gladsomo trans.
Seuuynv1 HaShlhcent, lnoXpuCablc structure
called the resurrection body, YOU will bavs
lt, 1 viii have IT. say 20 YOU TODAY as pnnI
said 10 Agrippa; "Why should IL be tbought
thlng incredible with YOU. that God s6oul5
raise tho deadT The fnr-up cloud higher
Slah man uo hawk HES, higher than the eagle
HES what IS II made on Drops OF water FROM
The Hudson, other drops from the East River
Otiler uIops from stagnant pool out on New.
ARK nAtS-up yonder there embodied i'm m
uoud, and the sun kndles it, IL Col can niaks
such luStrous cloud out OF water drops many
OF them Soiled and impure and fetched from
miles away, can He not transport the frar-
mentS OF a human body from the earth and
out OF them build a radiant boiyi Cannot
God, who owns all the material out OF which
bones and muscle and flesh are made ST
them up again II they have fallcni N n
Manufacturer OF telescopes drop a telescope
on the hoor and lt breaks, can ho not
mend IL again 80 you can sea thronsL
III And IL God drops the human eve
into tho dust, tho eye which he originally
IaShionod, can He not restore ~ Ave, NJ
tho manufacturer OF the telescope by a
change of the glass and n change OF focus can
make better glass than that which was
originally constructed, and actually improve
IL, do you not think the fashioner of tho
human eye may improve its sight and
multiply the natural eye by the thouSandfold
additional forces CT the resurrection oYol
"Why should il be thought with You nm in
credible thing that God should raise the
deadN Things all around us suggest IT, Out
of what grew all these nowersi Out OF the
rectcdl The radiant butterfly, where
did IL como frOmi The loathsomo
caterpillar. That albatroSs that smites
tho tempest with its wing, whore
Near Be rgcrac, France, in n Celtic tomb
under n block were found flower seed that
had been buried two thousand years. The
explorer took the flower seed and planted
II, and 1t came up; IL bloomed in buebell and
helotrope. Two thousand years ago buried
yet resurrccted. A traveller says he found i'm
n mummypit in Egypt garden peas that had
b5en buried there three thousand years ago;
He brought them out and on the 9Th OF June
1874, no planted them. and I'm thirty days
S,ars, vet rcsurrected "Why should IL bo
thought a thing incredible W ith you that God
should raise the dead "
Where did all this silk come from the silk
that adorns your persons and your honest
la the hollow OF a staff Greek missionary
brought from China 90 Europe Che progeni-
tors Of those worms that now supply tho silk
market OF many nations The pageantry OF
hammered host and the Luxurious articles
Of commercial emporium blazing out
from the silk worms Aud who shall be
surprised II out OF this insignificant earthly
body, this insignificant earthly life, our
bodies unfold into something worthy OF the
coming eternitiey Put silver into diluted
nitro and IL diSolvCs. is the silver gone for
eyerf No. Put in some pieces Of copper and
the silver reappearS III one force dissolyes
another force organizes
Why sholtidlt = thought "a thing incrcdi-
blu with YOU that q Nshould raise the deadW
lhe insects flew and the worms crawled last
autumn feeblcr and fcebler, and then stopped.
They have taken 40 fool they want none
They lay dormant and inscnsible but soon
the south wind viii blow She resurrection
trumpet, and the air and the earth will
be fun OF them. DO you not think
that God can do as much for our bodies as lie
does for the wasps and tho spiders and tho
Anallsi This morning at 80 O'Clock there was
resurrection Out of the night. the day. In
few weeks there will bc n resurrection in all
our gardens. Why no. some day a resurrec-
uon amid all the gravesi
Ever and anon there are instances OF man
and women entranced.
a trance is death followed by resurrection
after few days total suspension OF mental
power and voluntary action. Rev William
lennent, n great evangelist Of the last gen
Grafton, Of whom DR. Archibald Alexander,
man far from being sentimental wrote i'm
most eulogstic terms-Rov William Ten
nent seemed 90 die. His spirit departed
People came in day after day and said:
lie IS dead, he IS dead But the soul that
ncd returned and william Tennent lived to
write out the experiences Of what he had seen
Wmle ms soul was gone. H. may be found
some time TINT what is called suspended AMI.
nation or cOmatOse state Us brief death giving
the soul an excursion into the next world
from which 10 comes back, O furlough OF
Few hours granted from the conflict
oil lie TO which IL must return Do not this
waking up Of mon from trance and this wax.
ing up Of insects from winter lifelessness. and
TINS waking up Of grains buried three thou.
band years ago, make 10 easier for YOU
10 believe that your body and mine
after tho vacation OF the grave shall
rouse and rally, though there DO three
thousand years between our last breath and
the sounding OF the archangelic rcveillof
fhysloiogists tell us that while tho most Of
our bodies arc built with such wonderful
economy that We can spare nothing and tho
loss OF a finger Is n hndcrmcnt, and the
injury OF toe joint makes ms lame,
sun that We have two or three use
loss physical apparati, and no anatOmisi
or physioogist has never been able 10 tell
what they arc for. They are no doubt the
foundation Of tho resurrection body, worth
nothing 10 ms I'M this state, 10 be indispensa-
bly, valuable In the next state The Jewish
rabbins had only n hint Of this sug-
gestion when they said that in the
human frame there was a small bone which
was 10 be the basis Of tho resurrection
body. Perhaps that may have been a de
lusion. But this thing is certain, the
Christian scientists OF our day have found out
that there arc two or three surerhuitieg Of
body that arc something gloriously suggos-
tive of another state
j called at my friends house ono summer
doy. i found the yard al piled up with the
rubbish OF carpenter and masOns work Tho
door vas on. The plumbers had torn up tho
hOOr. Tho roof was being lifted in
cupoia AT the pictures were gone, and
tho paper-hangers we're doing their work
All the modern improvements wero boing
introduced into that dwelling There was
not room in tho house ft 10 live in at that
time, although n month before whom visited
that hOuso everything was 80 beautiful i
could not have suggested an Improvement
Ny friend had gone with his family to
tho hoiy Land expecting 10 como
back a. tho end Of six months
when the building was 70 bo done. Ana
Oh what was Ibis joy when at tho end OF six
months, he returned and tho old house was
enlarged and improved and glorihedI That
N your body. 10 looks well now-all the
rooms hllod with health and We could hardly
maze suggestion. But after awhile your soul
VIII go - the Holy Land. and while YOU are
gone tbe old house ~ your tatornacle will
BE- entirely reconstructed from cellar b. attic
and every nerve, muscle and bone and tissue
ana artery must be- hauled over, and tho Old
structure viii be FURNISHED and adorned and
raised and cupOiard and enlarged and an tho
improvements ~ heaven introduced aud you
VIII move INTO it ON resurrection day "For
We know that If our earthly house of
ms tabernacle were dissolved wo have n
DuldinR of Cod % h0uss not made with
hands, eternal iu tho heavens They are
very ioHd of each other Did your body gvor
nave pain and your soul not pity it7 or sur
D'dy have JOY and your soul not